June 22, 2013: East Broadway in downtown Council Bluffs. The owner of the Mississippi State flag isn’t lost, just here for the College World Series. This photo is west of the Broadway/Kanesville intersection on the historic Lincoln Highway.
Although (as of this writing, after a call to the city) US 6 is still signed through Council Bluffs on West Broadway and Kanesville Boulevard despite an approved transfer of jurisdiction, the city is already changing the road. The Nonpareil reported last week that in a project that ended Dec. 29, the intersection of East Broadway and Kanesville was reconfigured from a Y to a T. The intersection was built in the early 1980s, when Kanesville was extended westward so US 6 could bypass downtown Council Bluffs. The Lincoln Highway gets back onto 6 here, goes northeast to the next intersection, then heads north on North Broadway. The road pattern that existed in the area when the Lincoln Highway went through and US 32/6 exited the city on McPherson is nearly buried, and this changes it further. The intersection is where IA 183 ended from 1969 to 1981 (after taking over the US 30A designation south of Missouri Valley) and a sign still pointed to the route until 2003.
The unusual part of this is that last I knew, the Iowa DOT was going to keep control of this part of Kanesville, since it’s east of downtown. Based on a photo of the new intersection, though, only a tiny portion of that road needed work, so there was probably some sort of agreement made.